EducationB.A., University of California at Berkeley, Political Science (1968)M.A., University of California at Berkeley, Political Science (1971)Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, Political Science (1977)

Teaching/ResearchRichard Gunther has research interests in Southern Europe, transitions to and consolidation of democracy, electoral behavior, and comparative political institutions and public policy. He is the international coordinator of the Comparative National Elections Project, and his current research involves comparative analyses of support for democracy and norms relating to citizenship, changes in the structure of partisan competition, and the impact of values on democratic participation.

Gunther received the Political Science Department's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2009, the University Distinguished Scholar Award in 2006, the University Distinguished Service Award in 2004, and was Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellow from 2004-07.